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781. Ashley MS A223

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Ashley MS A223
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'Sonnets from the Portuguese' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; [1849-1850]. Autograph fair copy of Sonnet 42, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of pale green wove paper. No watermark, but embossed 'BATH'. The poem is entitled 'Future and Past', as it is in Poems, 1850, where it was printe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1849-1850]
Extent:
1 item

782. Ashley MS B5568

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Ashley MS B5568
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Letter from Montague Summers to Edmund Gosse, concerning Ravenscroft, the dramatist; 30 Dec. 1916. includes: ff. 92, 93 Reverend Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augustus Montague Summers, writer: Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Letter to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Rev. Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augus...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1916
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1 item

783. Ashley MS 1146

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Ashley MS 1146
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Letter, with envelope, from George Meredith to T. J. Wise concerning the MS. of A.C. Swinburne's 'Laus Veneris'; 23 April 1909. This letter is stated by Wise to be the last written by Meredith. Printed in The Letters of George Meredith, ed. C. L. Cline, iii, 1970, p. 1695. Ashley Library Catalog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1909
Extent:
1 item

784. Ashley MS 1273

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Ashley MS 1273
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Letter, enclosing a fair copy (f. 2) of a poem entitled 'Scire Teipsum', from Coventry Patmore to Edmund Gosse; 25 July 1882. In the letter Patmore praises a poem by Gosse 'which expresses with the vigour and joy of experience the Catholic doctrine that virginity is not the denial but the consum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1882
Extent:
1 item

785. Ashley MS 1416

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Ashley MS 1416
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Letters (8), five with envelopes, from D. G. Rossetti to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], chiefly concerning the latter's selection of the poems of Thomas Chatterton for Ward's English Poets; [6 May?-9 June?] 1880. With the letters are (ff. 18-39) notes on, and transcripts of, various poems of Chatterton b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 item

786. Ashley MS 5743

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Ashley MS 5743
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'The Mother's Tale': a poem by Walter Savage Landor; [1835]. Auto-graph fair copy. ff. 1-3b. Accompanying the MS. is a letter (ff. 4, 4b) from Landor to the Countess of Blessington, [1835]. Quarto; ff. i+4. includes: ff. 1-3b Tales: Walter Savage Landor, d.1864; author: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1835]
Extent:
1 item

787. Ashley MS A848

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Ashley MS A848
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Letter from Thomas Hardy to Edward Clodd, speaking of the illust-rations by Hardy to his own Wessex Poems, 1898; 29 March 1899. Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ii, 1980, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, p. 217. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 124-125. includes: ff. 63-64 E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1899
Extent:
1 item

788. Ashley MS A1003

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Ashley MS A1003
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Letter from Richard le Gallienne to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], sending him a copy of his G. Meredith Some Characteristics, 1890, in the hopes of a review; 8 Nov. 1890. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 37-38. includes: ff. 105b-106b Richard Le Gallienne, author: Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1890
Extent:
1 item

789. Ashley MS A1232

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Ashley MS A1232
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Letter from William Morris to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], announcing that his translation of Beowulf is nearly ready; 3 Jan. 1895. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 174. includes: f. 160 Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, formerly Watts; critic, novelist and poet: William Morris, poet and artist: Lette...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1895
Extent:
1 item

790. Ashley MS A1785

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Ashley MS A1785
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Letter from Robert Louis Stevenson to Mrs Edmund Gosse, describing the writing and printing activities of his young stepson S. L. Osbourne, and in particular his Black Canyon; 16 March 1882. Printed, with omissions, in Sidney Colvin, The Letters of R. L. Stevenson, 1911, ii, pp. 71-72. Ashley Li...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1882
Extent:
1 item